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A sobriety checkpoint in Dayton is planned for this weekend. The Combined Agency OVI Task Force of Montgomery County will operate the enforcement, according to a statement released Monday afternoon. The location will be revealed this week. According to the OVI task force, there were 596 alcohol-related crashes in Montgomery County in 2016.&nbsp...

The lawyer for a Lakota East High School student charged with making terroristic threats says his client was bullied. The teen is alleged to have sent out a Snapchat message stating he would hire a hit man to assassinate other teens and then put them in a blender. MORE: Lakota East student facing felony for allegedly threatening peers “I think...

A repeat sex offender who prosecutors said reported his most recent crime to police was sentenced Monday to 42 months in prison as part of a plea deal. Michael R. Finley, 29, of Sidney and formerly of Piqua, was sentenced in Miami County Common Pleas Court on a felony charge of gross sexual imposition. He pleaded guilty in July. Finley was on post-release...

A 16-year-old Greenon High School student was killed Sunday in a car crash in Enon — the third student in the district to die in a fatal accident this school year. Kendal “Kenny” DePhillip, a junior, died while a passenger in a car that crashed shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday on Fowler Road between Rebert Pike and Broadway Road in...

Timothy Joseph Ashcraft seemed to have his life together. After struggling through school in Middletown, the 18-year-old found a love of welding and attended Live Oaks Career Center. As a senior at Amelia High School, where he attended after moving from Middletown, Ashcraft enlisted in the U.S. Army and told his family he was looking forward to graduating...